Team up with
Jewish Family Service
and lend a hand at the
2nd annual
Fall Fix Up*
Sunday, November 1, 1998
*An annual program serving homebound older
adults and others in need of minor home repairs
and outdoor cleanup
Gerry Kaplan Irvin Kappy
Chairpersons
Nancy Welber Barr
Micki Grossman Joel Young
Co-chairpersons
Call Nitzana York
at 248-559-1500,
for information and
registration
Please complete and return this form to Nitzana York,
Jewish Family Service • 24123 Greenfield • Southfield, MI 48075
YES!!! I want- to lend a helping hand at the Fall Fix Up!
Name
Phone
Address
Special Fall Fix Up Skills
I would like to work with (names and phone numbers)
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to 124 last year and is 133 this year.
Ann Arbor's Temple Beth Emeth,
Bet Chaverim, which opened its
which has grown by a whopping 54
school in Canton four years ago, has
percent since 1993-94, added a post
doubled from 11 students to 25 stu-
b'nai mitzvah program two years
dents. The temple hopes to attract
ago. Also in Ann Arbor, the 200-stu-
more members, but with enrollment
dent Beth Israel Congregation
up by only one student since last
reports growth, although numbers
year, its growth appears to be stabiliz-
from five years ago were not avail-
ing. In its sixth year — the first in its
able.
own building — Congregation Shir
Enrollment at the 80-student
Tikvah of Troy has grown from 80
Birmingham Temple is up by 10 per-
students to 142. Last year's enroll-
cent since 1993-94; it had 75 stu-
ment was 120.
dents last year. Another secular
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Another relatively young school,
Jewish school, Workmen's Circle
the 10-year-old Temple Shir Shalom,
Center in Oak Park, under Education
has grown by 40 percent since 1993-
Director Jan Adler, has maintained an
94 and now has more. than 400 stu-
enrollment of approximately 40 for
dents. The West Bloomfield temple
the past five years.
had 385 students last year and
Under the direction of Cantor
recently has witnessed its most dra-
Ben-Zion Lanxner, Congregation
matic growth in kindergarten
B'nai David in West Bloomfield just
through second grade, said Education
opened a religious school this fall
Director Mindy Nathan.
with 25 students. Many of them for-
Fran Pearlman of Temple Israel,
merly attended Beth Abraham Hillel
Detroit's largest congregational
Moses school, which Lanxner directed
school, noticed a similar trend.
until last June. With 82 students,
"Families are affiliating when their
BAHM's enrollment is down by 29
children are
younger," she said.
The West
Bloomfield school's
enrollment — at •
1,595 — is up by
22 percent since
1993-94 and by 2
percent since last
year.
Schools with
new facilities are
enjoying significant
enrollment.jumps.
In West Bloomfield,
the 676-student
David Soloman gets special attention from teacher Shula Hazan.
Congregation
Shaarey Zedek, which has increased
percent from last year's 115. Five
by 27 percent in the past five years
years ago, 120 students attended the
and by 8 percent since 1997-98,
school.
opened a brand-new school building
Like BAHM, the schools at
with extensive athletic and computer
Temple Emanu-El, Jewish Parents
facilities last year.
Institute and Congregation Beit
The 220-student Congregation .
Kodesh in Livonia have fewer chil-
Beth Shalom in Oak Park, which has
dremenrolled this year. With 382
increased by 82 percent in the past
students, Emanu-El has dropped by
six years and by 4 percent since
13 percent since 1993-94, but has
1997-98, is completing construction
the same number of students as last
on its first-ever school wing.
year. The 70-student JPI has lost 18
Many growing schools attribute
pupils since last year, but expects to
their enrollment jump to the success
regain late-enrolling students in the
of their high school programs.
coming months. It did not provide
Elissa Berg of the 552-student Adat
enrollment information from five
Shalom Synagogue in Farmington
years ago.
Hills noted that most of her school's
Beit Kodesh, with 30 students; has
growth (8 percent since 1993-94) is in
five fewer children than last year.
the high school. Much of it occurred
Educators at Congregation
this year, following the synagogue's
T'Chiyah did not return phone calls
recent merger with Beth Achim.
requesting enrollment information.
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